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My own list is dominated by the fact that (1) I started playing D&D just as AD&D 2E was coming out, and while I had some AD&D 1E adventures I never owned the AD&D 1E rulebooks, and (2) once I went off to college (in 1996) I didn't have a regular gaming group until I joined an Iron Heroes...

Thank you for taking the time to read it! I completely agree that radiant is a rare damage type, but if you look at the Circle of the Land (which is the reference sub-class), it gives you protection against damage from plants. So I was going for something about equally useful. :-) However! I...

I'm currently playing in a fun TftYP campaign, but the next DM in rotation has said he plans on running Spelljammer. We've already discussed who'll play what, and I took druid. I wanted to make a Circle just for druids of wildspace, so the below is what I made. As a design note you'll notice...

More druids that use Wildshape as a resource for stuff other than turning-into-an-animal. The Spore Druid was great because it treated Wildshape more like a generic power resource (like Channel Divinity).

THIS. The Monster Manual has infinite difficulty. No one should be complaining that 5E is "easy mode". (1) can probably only come with experience. I sure am still learning. I've been a DM for a long time, but 5E has its unique nuances and challenges. But the one thing I've really learned so...

Shea actually addresses that! He says in his intro "If you read nothing else, just read Chapter 2".

I voted 1 year+, although that's not quite right. I've had as a House Rule for a long time (15+ years?) that you roll your entire Hit Dice pool when you level up (e.g., 10d8+10) and take the new total if it's higher. I kept that rule in 5E from Day 1. I also had a couple house rules that were...

I think Concentration is great. Removing it would be a hugely unbalancing boost to caster classes.

I've no idea what you think is missing. BUT, I will suggest that perhaps you should look into playing a Warlock. You can take Minor Illusion as a cantrip and then Misty Visions and Mask of Many Faces at 2nd level. Just spam those illusions. Both the Chain and Tome pacts are compatible with that...

Before anyone asks, I don't think that the above house rules make Warlocks unbalanced. I'm currently in a group with my playing a Warlock (using the expanded spells known, but no borrowing), a gnome illusionist, and a battle cleric. The other two casters more than hold their own. My warlock...

I love it! Good selection of spells. In my current group, the House Rules give Warlocks their Expanded Spell list spells for free, just like Cleric Domain spells. I really think it's necessary, as Warlocks know so few spells they're basically forced to choose only the most basic, utilitarian...

This is why I play Forgotten Realms using Grey Box canon and ignore everything that came after. The joys of running homebrew and not needing to care what the Adventurer's League is up to. I can just pick an choose from the new materials to incorporate into my "canon" campaign notes.

Hmmmm. This makes me wonder if the big adventure this year will be The Great Modron March or Blood War. But on the whole, this is the first WotC book in a while that managed to check every “Things I don’t care about much” box. The Gith/MF stuff seems semi interesting. Also, *not* a fan of the...

Also, having "Warrior" be a sub-class of Rogue rather than Fighter is just confusing branding.

Sorry to be a spoil-sport but you can do this with a 1 level dip in Fighter and the Medium Armor Master feat. And since Rogues are one of the two classes that get extra ASIs, the feat tax really isn't so bad. Take the Soldier background for the role-playing angle. I'd rather build more thematic...

I voted Rogue. The Rogue and the Fighter have very different fighting styles, but I find them equally fun. The Fighter is tons of fun... in combat. But I voted Rogue because they have so many more mechanical features outside of combat. Fighters basically just have Athletics. Of course you...

If I were rebuilding Sorcerer from the ground up, this is how I'd do it. Each bloodline would get 2 bloodline spells per level that cover a wide range of combat, exploration, and utility. They'd scale well. Detect Magic, Dispel Magic, and Counterspell would all be class abilities. Any known...

That's already the case. If all you do is allow Wizards to learn two spells per level from their spellbook and prepare level + INT spells, they will always (on any given day) have more spells prepared than the sorcerer can know AND have even more spells in their spellbook they can swap in. And...

Hmmmmm. I guess we'll see when we get more information on Monday. I wasn't exactly chomping at the bit for more demon types or elf sub-races.